Sharings

One of our biggest challenges was the rigidity of my work schedule. My son was born during a semester in which I was teaching three course sections, with the final section ending at 6:20 p.m. Although my employer formally offered six weeks…

In the US, the biggest childcare challenge was long waitlists, which left us stressed until the last moment -the semester was about to start and we still had no solution in place. There is also enormous variation between daycares in terms o…

We decided to be a single income family.

The biggest challenge was facing the uncertainty of not knowing if/when the childcare was going to be available.

Finding the right mix of quality, availability, and affordability has been a leading challenge. Moreover, because of the competitive market, the first dimension on which we have compromised is affordability.

The town we live in has only one childcare center. Luckily they had a spot when we needed it! We had to pay for the first half of the year while I was on leave (when we didn’t need childcare) to ensure our spot, though. Which was expensive!

Waitlist uncertainty, parenting at home while teaching during COVID

Cost and hours of availability were our biggest issues. As an academic i had to be the one to leave early since my job had more flexibility but it meant I'd have to make up the time elsewhere

We did put ourselves on a waitlist but when ended up getting we had already adopted other solutions so we also concluded that its not reliable.